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For PU fans, the worst case scenario for them is any sort of coaching change. We are still a sleeping giant, or more accurately a giant poisoned by our own moron trustees and donors, but if we can hire a coach that gets us healthy again we can be pretty good. Best case for PU is more Woody, but those days are rapidly coming to an end.

If true that's f'cking insane. For a program like IU to suck so bad for 25 years, it's world class idiots like this behind the scenes making it happen.

Buckner and Ferguson. At least Doyel called them out yesterday in the Star so more people are aware of these two morons. But they answer to no one, and no one bothers to try and ask them questions. They did neglected their duties, did serious damage to IUBB, and they will face no repercussions. I'm praying Dolson is in control and he does a good enough job as AD to have control for a long time. If we have an AD change, I worry about the power vacuum letting idiot trustees and donors back in.

It’s nice how Tom has been an advocate for IUBB and the fanbase over the years.

This is a bit of a wrench in the rev share. Schools were planning to send around 75% of the $22M/yr rev share to FB, which is consistent with the settlement to former athletes. I would guess schools figure out some way to get FB most of the rev share — just has to work that way in the end when FB is the sport generating most of the revenue to begin with. https://x.com/rossdellenger/status/1880024679500714243?s=46&t=zoBJGD5TXRBDk1ODyOZqlg

Yea. If a coach lays out their plan and shows progress fans get it. Fans were very patient with Crean’s rebuild — it was clear he cleaned house and high school recruiting took time. Part of the big issue with Woody was in Year 3, which is when the results of what a coach is building should really be apparent, his program literally imploded. Team was ranked in the 90’s with no high schools recruiting class — insane! The Woody supporters have given up on him now, but many still love blaming the fans, media, expectations, etc. when the issue has always been that Woody is a terrible coach and the program has been poorly run for a long time.

Yea. Our fans aren’t that bad. Just a bunch of nice midwesterners. Woody only ran into issues when his program completely imploded on the court and recruiting. It was all his fault. Heck, we were not good last year and still had a huge fan showing at MSG and Atlanta. Home attendance was good too for a bad team ranked in the 90’s. Coaches should know how to manage fans, it’s not hard. Fans are a valuable asset like you said — they cheer and donate. They might get mad online — who cares. If a coach praises the fans and takes accountability for results, fans will give the coach quite a bit of leeway. Woody did the opposite, which doesn’t pair well with the awful results he produces.

Ha. No we don’t, not even close.

Perhaps it was sabotage?! Can’t appoint your pal to be coach if Brad takes the job… ;)

I get there are concerns about the optics of firing Woody after three years. But, what about the optics of this season as a result of keeping him? The 20+ point blowouts, ranked in the 60’s after huge NIL spend, empty AH, and significant national media criticism. And we whiffed on another high school recruiting class, including top Indiana kids, which starts to compromise next year. These optics are a lot worse than firing a bad coach after three years.

He knows all the influential people at IU and also the state government. Cook is obviously our biggest donor and he is woven into that company/family. Unfortunately, he has a lot of influence. He and Quinn are a nightmare combo.

Ferguson. Chairman of Cook Medical, former Chair of BoT, etc. and was a mentor to Woody a long time ago or something like that, I can't remember, but they're close. Buckner and Ferguson pushed the Woody hire here. Apparently IUBB is their personal sandbox and they can appoint their old pal to be coach. Very poor behavior from them.

If Brad fails here we need to shutdown the program, or basically run it on a shoestring budget and give up and focus on FB.

Yea. IIRC for some periods growing up he lived out of a car. That sucks I can't imagine that. If we could have got good players like him in and made it work, that's great, but Kelvin generally couldn't get them to buy-in to the whole student-athlete strong team culture thing. I just remembered Kelvin had Bud Mackey committed. Kelvin was just way off on recruiting some of these guys.

No. He’s a great coach and a great GM. He has figured out every new challenge he has taken on. He would adjust as needed to succeed in 2025 CBB. Unfortunately, he is a slim chance to come here.

I am pretty optimistic Dolson will get to make the call on the new coach. A new coach has to happen end of season. But, I tend to doubt the group of idiots ("stakeholders") that influence IUBB have the fortitude to fire Woody midseason and figure out an interim coach setup that can get something out of this very expensive $6M team. This would be a very difficult and delicate management change that only very talented leaders can pull off. With all the stakeholders involved in our stupid program, IUBB likely doesn't even have the organizational structure in place to allow Scott, with Pam's support, to go in and make a daring and gutsy midseason coaching change. Woody almost certainly still has some stakeholders on his side and they would probably go wild internally and cause problems that make trying this not worth it. The easy road for IUBB is to buckle down with Woody until the end of the season. They probably take this option.

It’s not too respectful and courteous to condescendingly call everyone who disagrees with her emotional. It’s sly trolling to wind people up. That plus her fake insider persona and you’ve got a typical attention seeking character. Lame.

Nah, just a message board troll.

Troll loves attention.

Hope not. Trolling got old.

No that’s his UM deal.

He should be the boss, but he has not been that on the bball side yet.

Yea. We lost our blue blood status at this point. Replaced by UConn.

I’m sure the whole B1G loves Woody at IU.

Declaring everyone is emotional usually doesn’t calm things. She offers no useful info — oh Woody won’t be fired midseason and if the season goes bad he probably does? Stop the presses! In the end she/he is a troll.